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Pope Leo XIV shares lunch with people in need at the Vatican on November 16, 2025. / Daniel Ibáñez Vatican City, Nov 16, 2025 / 11:15 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV had lunch on Sunday with more than 1,300 people experiencing poverty and social exclusion, gathering with them in the Vatican’s Paul ... read more

Pope Leo XIV receives cloistered Augustinian nuns at the Vatican on Nov. 13, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 14, 2025 / 15:43 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV praised the “silent and hidden love” of cloistered nuns who, he said, are free from the slavery of society’s focus on ... read more

Pope Leo XIV waves to those gathered at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome on Nov. 14, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 14, 2025 / 10:04 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Friday urged academics to “think the faith” in order to confront what he called an increasingly ... read more

Pope Leo XIV gives his apostolic blessing at the end of the general audience in St. Peter’s Square on Nov. 12, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA Vatican City, Nov 13, 2025 / 15:54 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV during an address at the Vatican on Thursday called for the “prudent” evaluation of ... read more

The Institute for the Works of Religion, commonly known as the Vatican bank. / Credit: Andrea Gagliarducci/CNA Vatican City, Nov 13, 2025 / 11:00 am (CNA). The Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR) rehired the couple in a negotiated settlement over a wrongful termination lawsuit filed in January. ... read more

Servant of God Enrique Shaw. / Credit: Acdeano, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Vatican City, Nov 13, 2025 / 10:00 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV honored the late Argentine businessman Enrique Shaw in a message to the 31st Industrial Conference of Argentina taking place in Buenos Aires. ... read more

Rome’s Pontifical Lateran University, where the John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences is located. / Credit: calu777/flickr (CC BY 2.0) Vatican City, Nov 13, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). The Pontifical Lateran University, the historic institution founded in 1773 by Pope Clement XIV, will inaugurate the academic ... read more

The beatification ceremony for Mother Elisva Vakha’i was held in the square in front of the Basilica-Shrine of Our Lady of Ransom in Vallarpadam, Kochi, Kerala, India, Nov. 8, 2025. / Credit: Congregation of the Teresian Discalced Carmelite Sisters; Daniel Ibañez/EWTN News Vatican City, Nov 12, 2025 / 16:24 pm (CNA). Pope ... read more

St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City. / Credit: Xosema (CC BY-SA 4.0) ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 12, 2025 / 14:54 pm (CNA). The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith declared that alleged apparitions of Jesus in France do not have a divine origin and are “not supernatural.” ... read more

Pope Leo XIV gives his apostolic blessing at the end of the general audience in St. Peter’s Square on Nov. 12, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA Vatican City, Nov 12, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV reflected on the world’s need for fraternity — a gift from Christ that frees ... read more

Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass at Sant’Anselmo Church in Rome on Nov. 11, 2025, for the 125th anniversary of the church’s consecration. Sant’Anselmo Church is part of a residential college and offices of the Benedictine Confederation, the governing body of the Order of St. Benedict. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, ... read more

Pope Leo XIV blesses a baby in St. Peter’s Square during his general audience on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 10, 2025 / 18:32 pm (CNA). The Vatican has revealed the names of Pope Leo XIV’s favorite films upon announcing the Holy ... read more

Image from trailer of the documentary biopic “Leo from Chicago.” / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 10, 2025 / 17:26 pm (CNA). The Vatican has officially released the documentary “Leo from Chicago” about the life of Pope Leo XIV in the United States, coinciding with his pontificate’s sixth month. ... read more

Pope Leo XIV addresses pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square for his Sunday Angelus on Nov. 9, 2025, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Nov 10, 2025 / 16:06 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV warned Monday that artificial intelligence could exacerbate “antihuman ideologies” in medicine as doctors and theologians ... read more

Pope Leo XIV speaks during Mass for the opening of the general chapter of the Order of St. Augustine on Sept. 1, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 10, 2025 / 12:08 pm (CNA). Father Edward Daniang Daleng, OSA, has been procurator general of the Order of St. Augustine ... read more